Ummidia Thorell, 1875

Tso, I-Min, Haupt, Joachim & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2003, The Trapdoor Spider Family Ctenizidae (Arachnida: Araneae) From Taiwan, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 51 (1), pp. 25-33 : 26

Ummidia Thorell, 1875

U m m i d i a T h o r e l l, 1 8 7 5: 1 0 2; R a v e n, 1 9 8 5: 1 4 1 -1 4 2; Yaginuma, 1986: 4.

Type species. – Ummidia aedification (WestWood, 1840) , by original designation.

Diagnosis. – This genus has been distinguished from Bothriocyrtum and Latouchia by a dorsal saddle-shaped depression of tibia III, and from Conothele by distinctly notched trochanters I and II.

Remarks. – Less than 10 species have been recorded world wide (Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940), of which six from North America and El Salvador, one from Tadzhikistan and one from Japan. This genus is reported from Taiwan for the first time. In this study, the new species U. taiwanensis is described as follows.